Summary
- Titan Comics has acquired the English publishing rights for Minoru Murao's Burst Angel manga, with the first volume set to release in 2024.
- Burst Angel is an adaptation of the original anime series produced by Gonzo and follows the story of four mercenaries and a college student caught up in a world of crime.
- The Burst Angel anime series ran for 24 episodes from 2004 and the manga series, a prequel titled Angel's Adolescence, was licensed by Tokyopop and now Titan Comics.
Last Friday, Titan Comics announced their acquisition and expected release date of Minoru Murao's Bakuretsu Tenshi (Burst Angel) manga, which was first published by Tokyopop in English. The first volume of Burst Angel published under Titan Comics' Titan Manga imprint is expected to be released next year.
The Burst Angel manga is an adaptation of the original anime produced by Gonzo, with the manga originally published by MediaWorks, a Kadokawa affiliate famous for its various Dengeki imprints, the most notable of which is the Dengeki Bunko. The first volume of Burst Angel will be available May 21, 2024, and is currently available for pre-order via Amazon. The Burst Angel anime series is available for streaming on Crunchyroll.
The Burst Angel anime series was born from a screenplay created by Fumihiko Shimo (screenwriter of many adaptations of Key visual novels including Kanon, Air and Clannad), with direction from Koichi Ohata (storyboard artist, Healin' Good Pretty Cure). The series is set in a future where a rise in crime has prompted the Japanese government to allow civilians and the police to carry firearms.
The Recently Armed Police Force (RAPT) is a much graver form of policing that prioritizes eliminating criminals rather than arresting or subduing them. The story follows four mercenaries named Jo, Meg, Sei, and Amy, and a male college student named Kyohei Tachibana, who has dreams of going to culinary school.
He ends up working as a cook for the mercenaries, who work for a group known as Bailan, after being caught up in a gunfight between Jo and a gangster. He works for them in order to raise enough money to travel to France; however, Kyohei has his work cut out for him as the group investigates strange monsters wreaking havoc across Tokyo.
The anime ran for 24 episodes from April to September 2004, with an OVA called Burst Angel Infinity being released in 2007. The manga series created by Murao is a prequel titled Angel's Adolescence, which ran in Dengeki's shonen magazine, Dengeki Comic Gao!, for three volumes from January 2004 to June 2005, with the series dropping its last issue in August 2005.
The manga was originally licensed for distribution in North America by Tokyopop from September 2008 to May 2009, with Titan Comics licensing it in 2023 and the first volume set to arrive in May 2024.
Source: ANN